Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai

Lucifer, an Archangel and former head of the Seven Heavenly Virtues, is banished from Heaven after revolting against the Lord's will. While plummeting from the skies, she is halted halfway between Heaven and Hell after crashing through the roof of a high school church. Though she is witnessed by Maria Totsuka, a soft-spoken student at the academy, Lucifer swiftly continues her descent into the depths of Hell.

Soon after her arrival, Lucifer is found by aspiring Demon Lord and fangirl Leviathan. The two decide to overthrow the Seven Sins, the authorities of Hell under the leadership of Belial. But with their combined powers, the Seven Sins are able to repel Lucifer and contain her divine powers by placing a Garb of Punishment over her body, transforming Lucifer into a Demon Lord.

Longing for revenge and accompanied by Leviathan, Lucifer makes her way back to Earth, where she forces Maria to become her immortal slave. Together with her new accomplices, Lucifer sets out on a mission to subdue the Seven Sins so she may be free of the curse brought upon by her Garb.

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Lucifer Main

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Leviathan Main

Fujita, Akane Japanese

Asmodeus Main

Takahashi, Chiaki Japanese

Astaroth Main

Tadokoro, Azusa Japanese

Satan Main

Sakuraba, Arisa Japanese

Belial Main

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Belphegor Main

Kakuma, Ai Japanese

Totsuka, Maria Main

Toda, Megumi Japanese

Beelzebub Main

Ogura, Yui Japanese

Mammon Main

Hikasa, Youko Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Takahashi, Kazuaki Producer

Yokota, Masaaki Producer

Herek, Samantha Assistant Producer

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Jul 29, 2017

_ecchiman_

Recommended

Well its been a while since i've seen something with this much uncensored glory... Just kidding. but it is one of the few new seasonal anime that fulfill this desire of mine. Basically this anime is a ecchi, uncensored fanservice oriented anime. And thats all there is to it. If it were rated my my own standards it would get a 10 just because uncensored stuff is so hard to come by in 2017. But of course... it ain't my standards you wanna see so here goes.

STORY:
Its honestly not that bad. Yea it's redundant (sorta), yea it replays some very overused elements from other ... ecchi animes, but If it were a standalone plot not considered in context of the anime's before it, then yea its a good story. Its not executed super well like some other amazingly ecchi animes with great plots, but plot wise this does make the cut of a fairly good plot. It has a storyline, it has a a protagonist and an antagonist, as well as a twist at the last episode so its not entirely trash. But then again keep in mind this was made to be fanservice, so cut the plot some slack.

ART:
Okay, I originally was going to give it a 10 just because... well things... okay just because of the uncensored tits, but then I looked past that (wow, so uncharacteristic) and i did have some complaints with it. First off, a solid 9/10 for uncensored titties and good quality art that comes from new technology and such. One point off for 1 thing: cutting corners/getting lazy. I dont know why, but the animation as the anime progressed got worse and worse. less actions were being animated, and it was pretty clear that the producer/animator wanted to get this over with. It was annoying and a small thing, but it was still persistent enough to bother me, especially in the last episode.

Sound:
Gave it an 8, I don't really watch anime to listen to sounds. The voice actors were good I guess, nothing was really bad about it. It was more the ending song that bothered me. Its a personal preference but I just didn't like the way it sounds, and who was singing it. Other than that though...it was good.

Character:
Well... its good and bad. On the good side, there is a certain degree of character development for most of the characters, all the main ones as well as a good few side characters. Designs were great with the suits and stuff. On the other hand, the character development is pretty short, and not exactly well written to a point where it is believable. But what do you really expect with an anime geared toward fanservice? what? no one cares? yea i thought so... sadly

Enjoyment:
Personally I enjoyed it. There are alot of things that could have been improved, there are alot of things that could have been done better, but overall, I enjoyed watching it. Again, a big factor in this is the uncensored-ness. It wasn't executed in a way that the great ecchi animes were, so I didn't enjoy it perfectly, and also the laziness at the end really bothered me.

Also I didn't like how there wasn't a male protagonist, or even a male sub-character to bask in the glory of all that uncensored goodness. I would like for that to be there

Overall:
Watch it for fanservice and you will like it. Watch it for plot and you probably won't. It's one of those kinds of anime. Personal grading is pretty much 3 for ecchi plot+ 2 for fantasy genre+ 5 for uncensored titties (ahem, i mean art) makes a good 10/10. but yea realistically, 1 for plot+ 1 for character +2 for art +3 for ecchi = 7/10.

This just isn't an anime for everyone, and certainly not one you want to watch with your parents.

Peace.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Jun 10, 2020

CataOrShane

Mixed Feelings

Creating fiction around religion does not bother me one bit because to me religion is already fictional. This series has a great concept idea for the plot and characters but does not quite deliver it. For example, it's much easier to pull off an ecchi/near hentai story with Lust as the main character than any other.

Animation:
1) the visuals are inconsistent at times
2) the breasts either look weird or ugly and that's weird to me because I consider boobs beautiful
3) sometimes the characters' facial expressions do not match the emotions that they are expressing
4) animation and dialog aren't always synced
5) on ... the 9th episode, there's this bridge/path made of bones. When it breaks, you see the broken bones clearly but in the next sequence, the bones are instead turned into rocks and not only is that inaccurate in terms of Hell's mythology but also makes no sense in terms of continuity


Sound:
1) the soundtrack is poor with the exception of 1 or 2 songs
2) Sakuraba Arisa (Wrath/Satan) can't laugh at all which might be the reason why she doesn't have many roles


Story and characters:
1) I really like some of the ideas that this show presented: creating a story around Lucifer turning against God and becoming the King/Queen of Hell and proving that God is an hypocritical ego-maniac dictator and the rules he made up around the 7 deadly sins make no sense at all. I don't have a problem with the ecchi/near hentai scenes that obviously were the main focus for this anime but taking better advantage of the setting could've improved this show a lot. I also hated how the story is set in the present day.
2) The ending is anti-climatic and SPOILER: Maria's sacrifice felt pointless once she was revived.


For me this anime is a 5/10 mainly due to the waste of an amazing setting and premise.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Jul 29, 2017

LegendAqua

Not Recommended

Every media, every anime has it's sins. In this anime...seven isn't enough...

Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai, not to be confused with Nanatsu no Taizai the shounen anime, is a fanserviced up to quite literal hell about the Seven Deadly Sins, more specifically how Lucifer became the Leader of the Seven Deadly Sins and the Demon Lord of Pride by tagging along and more or less torturing an innocent church girl by the name of Maria Totsuka.

Before LA gets to sinning this anime, LA would point out the few, albeit "good" things Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai did. For one, the anime has shown it's research into Hell ... in many aspects, from the Demon Lords as to how the Demon Lords of Melancholy and Vanity are even here which calls back to Eight Evil thoughts by Evagrius Ponticus and why Envy isn't a Demon Lord yet and the most obvious artistic liberty Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai did is with Dante's Inferno by referencing Cocytus as well as the Gates of Hell a la Circles of Hell. Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai's artistic liberties and referencing of Christian Hell is by in a ways a good alternative look into Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai's world and this draw adds into some of the Demon Lords. As such the Demon Lords Satan, Belphegor and Astaroth are probably the best character developed focused episodes as well as the most likable characters as they kinda followed suit to their symbolism to their sins respectively with Astaroth being LA's favourite character just from her likable personality as well as the best episode focused on her in this entire series however...she has her flaws but that a bit later.

So, to sinning this anime. This anime is inconsistent as hell pardon the pun, but from episodes where yes they focused on the Sin of the Week, the inconsistency arises the quality of the episodes in question from outright horrible viewing experience to all-round good episodes and this affects the Sins in question as well. The Sins to fall victim to this are Asmodeus (Lust) because yes...the Lust episode is EXACTLY what you think to happen in a TNA anime, Mammon (Greed) for it's quality control broken (mainly the rigid fight scenes and plot stupidly off putting) and Mammon's development is rushed to all hell and Beelzebub (Gluttony) for being the reverse symbolism of her sins lore and being a rather fillery episode for her. Next sin and this is more obvious to a certain character and that's Maria, the tag along character and one of the main narrative-focused characters in the anime, she's a plain Mary Sue, that's kinda a problem in the outset but the biggest problem lies in the fact that she's tagged along for the ride and her motivations or development only concerns Lucifer nothing else...a perfect definition of a one-note character and she stands like this for the majority of the anime. Next sin goes obvious to the TNA part of this anime and it's all over the place, what's worse?...it's censored with these spinning red glyphs that gets in the way of it, LA gets WHY they did it, to make people buy the uncensored Blu-ray vers. of it but this practice pretty much needs to stop even in these ecchi-fest anime, as there is just no point when ohhh LA doesn't know, how about when we see violence here such as someone being stabbed in major detail (with blood pouring out of the stab wound) to some torturous BDSM imagery and fetishes shown in "subtle detail" <LA looks at Charon & Circles of Hell> and THAT isn't censored yet TNA is, but yeah it's for the sales right?...geez this anime's censorship has Greed's prints all over it. Next sin would go to Leviathan (Envy), she's the psycho lesbian of the anime and is completely in love with Lucifer but has to contend with Maria thus her envy, she is just an annoyance every scene she's in and she NEVER changes (though her psycho lesbian tendencies goes from yandere to tsundere), nonetheless one of the most annoying characters in the series. Next sin would go to Belial (Vainglory) and her motivations and backstory of her really, she's a one-note villain much like Maria is a one-note main protagonist, her motivations are just soo one-note it just makes her villainy all the more apparent and just to say "I'm the MAJOR VILLAIN...right?", her backstory feels half-assed in many aspects though some of the symbolism "saves" her but not enough, if you think Maria is bad as a bland character, LA thought Belial was much worse. The last sin would go to the ending in some ways, as much as it wanted to go out in a bang, the anime just found new ways for LA to question this notion, as such making us pity Lucifer to Belial and even Maria but was kinda undone by the finale anyways in many aspects and worst off was make Astaroth be a yes man to Belial but LA won't put THAT against her as again "symbolism" saved her from the disdain LA had towards the ending...NO the pure scorn LA had for this ending came in form of Maria and that "miracle" of an ass pull ending.

In terms of animation by TNK and Artland, the animation has it's high points with very exotic character designs (sans Belial's Gnosis outfit) and some of the backgrounding was very well done in some areas. Where the animation fell flat is in it's non-impactful battles as they mostly rely on beam-spamming to perspective-focused shots when some battles needed a wide-angel view of the impact, it is in a ways cutting corners for the battle scenes and probably next to the censored TNA, the battle scenes were lacking. To say the least, LA wanted to end the animation talk a bit more gracefully as it was mediocre to slightly above average at times but from what LA heard, Artland filed for bankruptcy, making this their last spurt...saddening but inevitably due to the reception Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai got.

In terms of voice acting, ok so for Spring 2017, you know how LA had been hinting on Akane Fujita's voice acting, well her as Leviathan was probably the worst LA has seen her as, yes her annoying tendencies were THAT bad, but the worst voice actor would go to quite easily Megumi Toda as Maria, she was just straight up bland in most of her performance in which LA doesn't blame the voice actor as she didn't have much to work with but nonetheless. Ohh Shizuka Ito, LA wanted to like Belial and Shizuka Ito's prima donna villainy vocals weren't enough for LA to say that this is one of her most narmy and displeasing roles LA had seen from her (right next to her role as Suzuna Hiiragi from Inu to Hasami wa Tsukaiyou (anyone remember that atrocity?)). On the brighter note, Azusa Tadokoro as Astaroth, Eri Kitamura as Lucifer, Arisa Sakurada as Satan and Ai Kakuma as Belphegor were all great as their characters with Azusa Tadokoro being LA's favourite voice actor no matter how little screentime she got. Overall as much of a mixed bag of voice cast this anime has, the vocal work was ok if you withstand the "moaning" if you know what LA means...

Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai is as much of an inconsistent mess as much as it's plot and as much LA likes the symbolism of this anime to the few likable characters given, it's "symbolism" and it's few developed to likable characters are NOT enough for LA to give it the grace LA would had given it. To be frank this anime like it's inconsistency fell into lots of titles for LA, from one of LA's guiltiest pleasures of Spring 2017, to one of the Top 3 worst animes of Spring 2017 to just "meh ecchi series" and really the fatal blow to Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai was it's ending that caused LA to say that Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai belongs in the Top 3 Worst Animes of Spring 2017 for LA, it has glimmers of a good TNA guilty pleasure anime with some Dante Inferno Sin lore but ultimately those glimmers were not enough for the mess of a plot, bland to annoying to lacking character development to half of it's cast, unnecessary censorship, lacking animation, how mean spirited it is and that asspull of an ending.

Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai tries to be an anime with fanservice FIRST before having a plot to go with it, which is odd considering all the research they did to make the Seven Deadly Sins lore as well as the fanservice being obviously marred by the stupid censorship and "crossing the line twice moments". But you just can't expect much from an anime where the focus is primarily on the forced TNA and Blu-ray sales.

Which Circle of Hell would Sin: Nanatsu no Taizai be best put in? Fourth or Fifth?

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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